Hello, everyone, Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is 8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more characters than that.
You'd also think that it would be easy to find the answer to this question, but I've man'd adduser & login, and scoured deja.com and Linux Unleashed (the Debian mailing list search seems to be not functioning currently. I got 'No Matches' no matter what I entered, even 'potato' for the most recent quarter). I even re-installed potato in a blank partition to see if it said anything about how many characters are allowed. It doesn't, it just puts you back to the 'Enter Username' field if you enter a very long name. TIA for any help :) Cheers.................... Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.--